APUSH

Hamilton's plan to get America out of debt and on good financial standing with the rest of the world. It had 5 parts - Bank of the US, excise tax on whiskey, funding our debts at par, assumption of state debts (which he got by promising to put the nation's capital in the south), and a tariff.

These made it illegal to speak poorly about, or criticize, the government (sedition) and gave the President the power to deport aliens he felt were dangerous. It also made it impossible to criticize the party in power, elected officials and extended the citizenship living requirements from 5 years to 14 years. THis act was passed by John Adams and the Federalist party.

A decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, as the surrender of Cornwallis's army prompted the British government eventually to negotiate an end to the conflict.

was a tax protest in Pennsylvania in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. The conflict was rooted in western dissatisfaction with a 1791 excise tax on whiskey. The Washington administration responded by sending peace commissioners to negotiate with the rebels, while at the same time calling on state governors to provide militia forces if needed. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.

Led by Daniel Shays, this rebellion dealt with poor farmers who could not pay their debts because of crushing and prohibitive taxes. Many of their farms were being confiscated by banks and this angered them to the point of rebellion. Shays' Rebellion is significant because it demonstrated to the country the need for a strong national government.

The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.

the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired at the 1783 peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.